Author Archives: Jesslyn Roebuck

Jesslyn Roebuck

I received this link in response to the “How Much Longer” post a while back:“It’s about profit. End the profit, and you end the problem.”Has anyone seen the film, “LORD OF WAR”?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Warhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

This is an email submission I received a while back With the start of another school year, I thought it apt to reprint the exchange here.My daughter came home from Kindergarten:“I hate it. My teacher is nice, but there aren’t ANY brown kids, and no brown teachers. Not anywhere. I don’t think they like brown […]

Tomgram: Lost in a Bermuda Triangle of InjusticeThe Facts on the GroundMini-Gulags, Hired Guns, Lobbyists, and a Reality Built on FearArticle about Guatanamo Bay, the Geneva Convention, and other little-known and out-of-the-limelight facts.by Tom EngelhardtTom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com (“a regular antidote to the mainstream media”), is the co-founder of the American […]

Yes, we can insist on a purging of public lies – a true reform. But we repeat a major blunder if we conclude that the problem of self-serving deception belongs to someone else. ”When I talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere,” Havel presumed to tell his fellow citizens, ”I mean all of us.”Read “the Culture […]

As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation.The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or indeed […]

AS America fell into the quagmire of Vietnam, the comedian Milton Berle joked that the fastest way to end the war would be to put it on the last-place network, ABC, where it was certain to be canceled. Berle’s gallows humor lives on in the quagmire in Iraq. Americans want this war canceled too, and […]

07/28/06 ” IPS ” — –One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, Israel said mistakes were made. How much longer will horrors be called mistakes? This slaughter of civilians began with the kidnapping of a soldier. […]

The super rich, the less than 1 percent of the population who own the lion’s share of the nation’s wealth, go uncounted in most income distribution reports. Even those who purport to study the question regularly overlook the very wealthiest among us. For instance, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, relying on the latest […]

http://manalaa.net/node/42853Dear All,A quiet night in Beirut, more or less, compared to what the inhabitants of Tyre and the south and the Beqaa and Tripoli experienced. They were shelled from the air and sea with little respite. Tyre is in tragically dire situation. 30,000 displaced, the mayor was on TV screaming for help, his voice choking […]

http://manalaa.net/node/42852Dear All,Things seem to heating up. Missiles hit Haifa and the shelling on the south and southern suburbs is unrelenting.Scorched Earth Policy Ehud Olmert promised scorched earth in South Lebanon after missiles hit Haifa. Warnings have been sent to inhabitants of the south to evacuate their villages, because the Israeli response to Hezbollah will be […]

http://manalaa.net/node/42851Today was a bad day. The shelling started from the morning countrywide and has not let until now. It was particularly brutal in the south. Marwaheen, a village in the south that had been under siege was showered with leafets from airplanes urging its inhabitants to flee because it would be bombed to the ground […]

Dear All,It is now night time in Beirut. The day was heavy, busy with shelling from the air and sea, but so far the night has been quiet in Beirut. We are advised to be bracing ourselves for a bad night, although most analysis is more reading tea leaves at this stage. I received a […]